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Thl Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND INC | $100,000 |
| STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC | $75,000 |
| LEADERSHIP BRAINERY | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $25,000 |
| GIVINGA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC | $10,000 |
| PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED | $7,500 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC3× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +54%- MMMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC4× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +113%
- LBLeadership Brainery Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +1%
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -100%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Brainery Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds 100 WOMEN IN FINANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds EASTIE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Thl Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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